The proxy fight was yesterday, and the shareholders say they won by a wide margin, giving them a majority on ICN's board.
Meanwhile, some Mannesmann shareholders say they are launching a court action in the United States to try and force the company to talk to Vodafone.
Lawyers suing the company on behalf of shareholders say that Service Corp. studied the contracts in 1996 and quickly realized that they would have a devastating impact on its bottom line.
They either take Northern Ireland out of their thinking frame or delay investment, or their shareholders say why should you invest in a country where there is not the stability you would expect?
And it will end taxpayer bailouts of Wall Street firms and give shareholders a say on executive compensation.
The new law takes away big bonuses and paydays from failed CEOs, while giving shareholders a say on executive salaries.
And will the administration follow up on Feinberg's report with a greater push to give shareholders more say on executive pay?
It does nothing to boost the economy, nor will it do much to force companies to give their shareholders more say in executive pay.
And the new law creates new authorities to claw back outsized compensation from failed CEOs, while finally giving shareholders a say on executive salaries.
In the U.S., the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law gave shareholders a nonbinding say-on-pay vote starting in 2011.
The idea of giving shareholders a "say-on-pay" is popular in Europe and is growing in popularity in the United States.
We pushed for in the House a provision providing shareholders with a say on executive pay that did pass the House and is certainly pending in the Senate.
The package marked the most significant move to date by Mr. Cook in putting his own imprint on Apple and reflects how he has been more forthcoming with shareholders, investors say.
Business leaders urged voters to choose a weaker plan put forward by the government that would have given shareholders a nonbinding say on corporate pay, and warned that passage of the Minder Initiative would cost the country jobs.
His visa has expired and so, say Russian shareholders who want him out, has his contract.
Obama himself likes to say that shareholders must sacrifice in this recovery.
At present, shareholders do not usually say much about pay and performance.
For now, the shareholders have little to say and it is the bondholders and possibly Sprint who will have something to say about its future.
The Glazers will continue to control the company through a class of supervoting stock, meaning that new shareholders will have little say on the team's future.
In April, a bill that would require shareholders to have a say in approving executives' pay passed the House, but the Senate has not taken it up.
And from now on, shareholders will have greater say on the pay of CEOs and other executives, so that they can reward success instead of failure, and help change the perverse incentives that encouraged so much reckless risk-taking in the first place.
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In fact, Vasella and his payouts have been regularly cited as one reason for an upcoming national referendum on a proposal that would look to level the playing field by giving citizens a chance to decide whether shareholders should have more say in executive compensation.
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And from now on, shareholders and other executives can know that shareholders will have greater say on the pay of CEOs, so that they can reward success instead of failure, and help change the perverse incentives that encouraged so much reckless risk-taking in the past.
At least the families who run Cablevision and the New York Times Co. can say their outside shareholders knew what they were buying into.
The problems began when a Belgian appeal-court ruling froze the BNP sale and ordered that shareholders be given a proper say in the break-up of the bank.
His government has tightened accounting rules to make business more open, given minority shareholders and institutional investors more say in corporate affairs and opened South Korea's capital markets.
They aren't commenting, but given their record, public shareholders might be well advised to say no thanks to the buyout offer.
Shareholders will also have a greater say on the pay of CEOs and other executives, so they can reward success instead of failure.
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Shareholders should be given the ultimate say on issues like this.
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Some Arcelor shareholders have complained they had little say in the deal with Severstal, which would give the Russian group's majority-owner and chairman, Alexei Mordashov, 32.2% of the enlarged group.
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